Language Arts

Welcome to the Language Arts page. We will be studying Language Arts using Reading and Writing Workshop. Our first unit of study is poetry!


Roots

name	origin	meaning	examples
corp	latin	body	corporal
culp	latin	guilty	culprit
anthrop	latin	man or human	anthropology
path	greek and latin	feeling or suffering	sympathy
spont		by one's force	spontaneous
bell		war	belligerent
dox	latin/greek	opinion/belief	paradox
zoo	greek	animals	zoology
arthro	latin	joint	arthritis
nov	latin	new	renovate
temp	latin	division or section	temperature
ami, amic	french	love	amiable

Prefixes

name	origin	meaning	examples
dis-	latin	apart	disengage
hyper-	greek	over	hyperactivity
anti-	greek	against	antisocial
epi-	latin/greek	upon	epicenter
com-		with/together	communicate
mal-		bad/evil	malediction
ex-	latin	out of	exodus
auto-	latin/greek	self	autobiography
ana-	greek	up/back/again	anagram
an-	latin	not or without	amoral
circum-	latin	around	circumference
ambi-	latin/greek	both	ambitious

Suffixes

name	origin	meaning	examples
-isk	latin	one who believes in	Communist
-cide	latin	kill	suicide
-ectomy		cutting	appendectomy
-phobia	greek	exaggerated fear	agoraphobia
-ics		things having to do with	dramatic
-oid	greek	resembling	spheroid
-or/-er	latin	one who takes part in	doctor
-ism	latin	the belief in	Communism